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If you could design your ideal parallel Bible that would include 4 English versions/translations side by side, which ones would you choose? This is not necessarily asking which 4 are your favorite, but which you would like to see next to each other, or which are most beneficial. And why?

I am not even sure which ones I would pick, but I think 2 of them would be NASB and NKJV.

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The NIV, representing the more "readable" school of translation (thus contrasting it with the NASB), plus it's currently the most popular with evangelicals.

Not sure about my fourth choice. Probably the NRSV as a good, literary representive of the newest translations in addition to being popular with mainline churches.

On the downside, 3/4 of my choices are part of the Tyndale/KJV family. Too bad there aren't more good and influential translations outside of that family tree - most of them seem to be for a specific purpose, usually a Bible for people whose English is weak, such as children or those for whom it is a second language.

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KJV - because of its tradition and its still a great translation, though garmmar and words have changed in 400 years and there have been new manuscript discoveries since its translation

HCSB - updated version from Texus Receptus and many Baptist translators were involved.

LITV - most literal of all translations but can be a bit cumbersome and there was essentially only one main translator

ESV - very easy to read but still literal translation, becoming my favorite. It is amazingly close to the NKJV and the KJV for that matter but it reads a flows so much better because of grammar and updating of archaic words. It is fast becoming my favorite for study and everyday reading.

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The NIV, representing the more "readable" school of translation (thus contrasting it with the NASB), plus it's currently the most popular with evangelicals.

Not sure about my fourth choice. Probably the NRSV as a good, literary representive of the newest translations in addition to being popular with mainline churches.

On the downside, 3/4 of my choices are part of the Tyndale/KJV family. Too bad there aren't more good and influential translations outside of that family tree - most of them seem to be for a specific purpose, usually a Bible for people whose English is weak, such as children or those for whom it is a second language.

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Now that I've thought about it, I think I would want
NASB 95
NKJV or KJV
ESV
NET Bible

I don't have an ESV but have read a lot of good things about it here. It would be interesting to compare it to the NASB. I would choose the NET Bible over the NIV, but I guess the NET notes might not fit in a parallel bible.

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KJV - because of its tradition and its still a great translation, though garmmar and words have changed in 400 years and there have been new manuscript discoveries since its translation

HCSB - updated version from Texus Receptus and many Baptist translators were involved.

LITV - most literal of all translations but can be a bit cumbersome and there was essentially only one main translator

ESV - very easy to read but still literal translation, becoming my favorite. It is amazingly close to the NKJV and the KJV for that matter but it reads a flows so much better because of grammar and updating of archaic words. It is fast becoming my favorite for study and everyday reading.

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Where do you find that the HCSB is an updated version from the Textus Receptus? Just curious, this is news to me.

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The NA in one column, and a literal translation by a non-denominational Greek scholar with no pre-set religious ideas in the other with the KJV to compare it to. I think it's important to have a common translation as others when studying, the KJV is good, and it's very common. Maybe as a fourth column, the ESV, since it's a decent translation, and very readable.

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